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Title: The complexity of flat origami

Conference ·
OSTI ID:416799
 [1];  [2]
  1. Xerox, Palo Alto, CA (United States)
  2. ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (United States)

We study a basic problem in mathematical origami: determine if a given crease pattern can be folded to a flat origami. We show that assigning mountain and valley folds is NP-hard. We also show that determining a suitable overlap order for flaps is NP-hard, even assuming a valid mountain and valley assignment.

OSTI ID:
416799
Report Number(s):
CONF-960121-; TRN: 96:005887-0022
Resource Relation:
Conference: 7. annual ACM-SIAM symposium on discrete algorithms, Atlanta, GA (United States), 28-30 Jan 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM-SIAM symposium on discrete algorithms; PB: 596 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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